Improvement in button-tabs



A. BERNDT.

BUTTON TABS.

No 188 571 Patented March 20,1877.

M a 0M.

N. PETEFS4 PHDTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNTTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

ALEXANDEB BERNDT, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-TABS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 155,571, dated March 20, 1877 application filed August 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BERNDT,

' of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Attaching Buttons to Pantaloons, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description there. of, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompany are fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and will be hereinafter more fully set forth and described.

It has been the custom heretofore to secure the buttons at, above referred to, directly to the waistband of the pantaloons B, and, consequently, every manufacturer-whether a large or small one-has been compelled to have a machine, or else to send the garments elsewhere to have the buttons attached. My chief object is to avoid the necessity of doing either; and in order to accomplish this, I secure the buttons to tags 0 of webbing or any suitable material, and supply them to the trade in this form. Said tags being of a convenient length-say two or three inches long- -can be sewed or stitched to the pants, as clearly indicated and represented in the drawing, so that if a button should be pulled or torn off while wearing a garment it may be replaced in a few moments, and without the necessity and inconvenience of sending the garment to have it done by a button-attaching machine. These tags also perform a very important function as stays at the corners of the pockets, and also at the seam where the waistband is joined to the body of the garment by having them extend a little below said seam, as indicated, and as will be readily understood.

I am aware that elastic straps, with books at the ends, have been connected to pants for special purposes; but it is apparent that this affords no substitute for the ordinary button, and is unserviceable in many cases where elastic is not desirable. It will be seen, moreover, that the inelastic strips 0. with the buttons a, secured by riveting, or otherwise, thereto, constitutes a new article of manufacture capable of being sold for application to pants by sewing the strips in position. By this means riveted buttons may be securely connected to the garments without the necessity of employing a household. riveting-machine.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, the tag a carrying the button a when secured thereto by means of a rivet, b, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own 1 hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER BERNDT.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, JOHN G. TUNBBIDGE. 

